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    Historic Photos of Dallas in the 50s, 60s, and 70s
    Historic Photos of Dallas in the 50s, 60s, and 70s
    Historic Photos of Dallas in the 50s, 60s, and 70s
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    Historic Photos of Dallas in the 50s, 60s, and 70s

    By Rusty Williams

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    In 1950 Dallas was a spirited Texas town of some regional importance; by 1980 it was an international city, one of the nation’s most populous, a center of trade, transportation, finance, pro sports, and popular culture.

    Historic Photos of Dallas in the 50s, 60s, and 70s documents this amazing transformation with seldom-seen photographs of the period. Nearly 200 historic images show Dallas in the process of refashioning its skyline, its streets, its institutions, its public behavior, and its sense of self and worth. Historic Photos of Dallas in the 50s, 60s, and 70s blends striking black-and-white images with crisp commentary to chronicle moments of joy, pride, and anguish during these tumultuous decades.

    This volume takes readers back to the not-so-long-ago Dallas of trolley buses, downtown movie theaters, and four-lane expressways, then shows how the city transcended its parochial beginnings to become one of the most dynamic American cities of the twentieth century.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateAug 28, 2010
    ISBN9781618583901
    Historic Photos of Dallas in the 50s, 60s, and 70s
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    Rusty Williams

    Rusty Williams is an award-winning writer-historian who writes about history through the stories of the people who lived it. He is a former journalist who has written for the Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, San Antonio Express-News and the Associated Press. Rusty is the author of Red River Bridge War: A Texas-Oklahoma Border Battle (Texas A&M Press), My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans (University Press of Kentucky), Historic Photos of Dallas in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s (Turner Publishing) and other books and articles about Texas and the Southwest. He speaks to clubs and organizations throughout the Southwest. Rusty lives in Dallas and can be reached at rustywilliams2004@yahoo.com.

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      Historic Photos of Dallas in the 50s, 60s, and 70s - Rusty Williams

      HISTORIC PHOTOS OF

      DALLAS

      IN THE 50S, 60S, AND 70S

      TEXT AND CAPTIONS BY RUSTY WILLIAMS

      The Dallas skyline is about to undergo a transformation. In this 1950s photo, looking southward from Munger Street (now Woodall Rogers Freeway), the Republic Bank and Mercantile and Magnolia (Mobil) buildings dominate downtown. A decade later, these buildings would be dwarfed by others.

      HISTORIC PHOTOS OF

      DALLAS

      IN THE 50S, 60S, AND 70S

      Turner Publishing Company

      200 4th Avenue North • Suite 950

      Nashville, Tennessee 37219

      (615) 255-2665

      www.turnerpublishing.com

      Historic Photos of Dallas in the 50s, 60s, and 70s

      Copyright © 2010 Turner Publishing Company

      All rights reserved.

      This book or any part thereof may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2010926750

      ISBN: 978-1-59652-742-3

      Printed in China

      10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17—0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      CONTENTS

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      PREFACE

      THE 1950S: BIG D (MY, OH, YES!) (1950–1959)

      THE 1960S: DEFINING DALLAS (1960–1969)

      THE 1970S: THE DALLAS OF DALLAS (1970–1979)

      NOTES ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS

      Suburban growth in the 1960s stretched city services, forcing renovation and expansion of many city facilities. When the East Dallas (Lakewood) branch of the Dallas Public Library was closed for remodeling in 1961, librarians organized a sidewalk Carnival of Books to serve their patrons. Books were dispensed from stalls, library windows, and two-legged bookmobiles until construction was complete.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      This volume, Historic Photos of Dallas in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, is the result of the cooperation and efforts of many individuals, organizations, and corporations. It is with great thanks that we acknowledge the valuable contribution of the following for their generous support:

      The Dallas Public Library

      The Library of Congress

      ———————

      With the exception of touching up imperfections that have accrued over time and cropping where necessary, no changes have been made to the photographs. The focus and clarity of many photographs is limited to the technology and the ability of the photographer at the time they were taken.

      PREFACE

      In the space of three decades, Dallas grew from the plucky, black-land prairie town of Big D (My, Oh Yes!) to the Dallas of Dallas.

      Like Atlanta, Seattle, Kansas City, or Denver—all cities with about the same population—Dallas in 1950 was a proud, ambitious town of some regional importance. All these mid-tier cities expected growth from WWII veterans who chose to leave farms for factory jobs in the cities, and all hoped to reap a harvest of young men educated on the G.I. Bill who might be counted on to start and run profitable businesses.

      But 30 years later, Dallas was a top-tier city, an international city, and the others weren’t. By whatever measure you choose—population growth, building permits, bank deposits, housing starts, or number of Jujubes sold at local movie theaters—Dallas doubled the growth of those other cities.

      It wasn’t just a matter of size. By the end of the 1970s, Dallas exerted a cultural influence far beyond its ranking as the seventh largest city in the nation. Dallas was home to America’s Team, a pro football team whose silver star was as recognizable to a goatherd in Norway as to a fan in Paducah. Dallas drove the fashion market for Sunbelt cities, and Tokyo teens emulated the big hair and just-so makeup that every Dallas debutante learns in kindergarten. Executives carrying briefcases stuffed with important papers arrived and departed hourly from Dallas’s international airport for oil and finance centers around the globe.

      In 1950, Dallas was a comfortable stopover at the intersection of three major rail lines for passengers on their way to Cleveland or St. Louis or Chicago. Three decades later Dallas was an Oz, a glittering emerald city on the horizon where glamorous and important people lived while doing fascinating things.

      This book provides nearly two hundred glimpses of Dallas in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. You’ll see the cop on the corner, the kids in school, the crowd at the ball park. If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember buildings that are now long gone, parades passed by, or days you’d as soon forget. If you didn’t live in Dallas during those decades, you may marvel at how quaint—how usual—life seemed to be in a city that was charging into the future like a rodeo bull leaving his stall. Whatever your perspective, as you flip from page

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